“Highland Mary”
Description
"Ye banks, and braes, and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods... For there I took the last fareweel O' my sweet Highland Mary." The singer recalls their love and their parting and laments her death
Notes
The Brigid Tunney song on IRTunneyFamily01 is mis-titled. On the recording itself Brigid Tunney identifies the song as "Highland Mary." - BS
Historical references
- 1786 - Romance between Robert Burns and Mary Campbell. They met in spring and pledged faith at their parting in May; Campbell died that autumn, probably of typhus
Cross references
- cf. "Katharine Ogie" (tune)
- cf. "Burns and His Highland Mary" [Laws O34] (subject)
Broadsides
- NLScotland, L.C.1270(001), "Highland Mary," unknown, c. 1845; also RB.m.143(029), "Highland Mary," unknown, c. 1890
Recordings
- Brigid Tunney, "Burns and His Highland Mary" (on IRTunneyFamily01)
References
- Creighton/Senior, p. 161-162, "Highland Mary" (1 texts, 1 tune, including 3 stanzas not part of the Burns poem)
- DT, HIGHMARY
- Roud #1095
- BI, CrSe161